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As the Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy Committee met last week to look at the impact of Brexit on the automotive sector, there were calls for the Government to keep the closest possible relationship with the existing EU regulatory and trading framework to give UK volume car manufacturing a realistic chance of survival post-Brexit. In a recently published report regarding the impact of Brexit on the automotive sector, the BEIS Committee says a no-deal puts hundreds of thousands of UK jobs at risk and threatens hundreds of millions of pounds of inward investment. The Society of Motor Manufacturers and...

Once upon a time there was a happily married couple. She liked summer sun and sea. He liked winter snow and ski. They overcame their differences and compromised – they spent their holidays together in autumn or spring. Despite the fact that both of them suffered by hay fever in the spring and both of them loathed autumn damp. Which is what I was thinking when I listened to Theresa May’s speech last week. There was something for everyone and a firm promise to no-one. He might get a bit of snow in a late autumn. She might spend a few...

It’s great when Brexiteers, like Mr R Garner (Letters, 27 February) and John Hayes MP (Hayes in The House, 27 February) rail against me for presenting uncomfortable facts and evidence about Brexit, as they simply give me further opportunities to point-out the fundamental flaws in their beliefs and assertions. This time around Mr R Garner says, “Isn’t it time for Mr Meekings to down his angry pen and look to a brighter future?” Short answer: no. Why would I believe in the economic equivalent of unicorns, when there’s no evidence unicorns exist? To be fair, John Hayes does quote...

As Christina Lamb, chief foreign correspondent of The Times, said on Desert Island Discs this week, “Facts are facts. You can’t have alternative facts.” In this context, let’s explore Paul Foyster’s assertions in his latest letter (Spalding Guardian Reader’s View). Paul Foyster UKIP Leader South Holland and the Deepings First, Paul said earlier (January 4), “For many years every single time the UK has objected to new EU rules and laws, we have been outvoted and overruled.” This assertion remains completely untrue. However, Paul now suggests this assertion can somehow be ignored because he “missed out” the word “significant” before “new...

Can we have some facts from UKIP? Councillor Paul Cayton Foyster, Chairman, UKIP South Holland & the Deepings (Reader’s View, January 4, 2018) says, “For many years every single time the UK has objected to new EU rules and laws, we have been outvoted and overruled.” Untrue. Would anyone locally like to know the facts, rather than the assertions made UKIP and our anti-EU daily press (owned by a few, tax-avoiding, hyper-rich individuals, who can sue me for libel if they wish)? Official voting records show the British government, since 1999, voted ‘No’ to laws passed at EU level...